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===Iddryitine Despotate===

The Iddryitine Despotate was a nominal dependency of the [[Caphiria#The_Second_Imperium|Caphirian Second Imperium]] that functioned for all intents and purposes as an independent state. Ruled from the island of Idyres, its ~~fluctuating territory~~ would extend ~~through~~ Sydona ~~as far east as~~ the ~~Tetyres and Diakronum~~, northward into the hinterland of modern South Solis, and also westward to encompass the southeasternmost corner of what is now Greater Salesia, including its offshore islands Elvanum and Bores. The Despotate's elite were Istroyan-speaking with Caphiric cultural pretensions, and its court conserved the symbolism, ritual, vocabulary, and pageantry of the Caphiric state system despite being isolated from the rest of the Istro-Caphiric cultural sphere of Sarpedon by Slavonic and Audonian conquest of the lands to its north and east. In the Sydona Islands under Iddrytine rule, the rural population was predominantly Pelian, while an Istro-Caphiricised, mainly coastal urban populace dominated commerce and politics.

The Iddryitine Despotate was a nominal dependency of the [[Caphiria#The_Second_Imperium|Caphirian Second Imperium]] that functioned for all intents and purposes as an independent state. Ruled from the island of Idyres, in 1080 AD its domain would extend to all of Sydona in the South, northward into the hinterland of modern South Solis, and also westward to encompass the southeasternmost corner of what is now Greater Salesia, including its offshore islands Elvanum and Bores. The Despotate's elite were Istroyan-speaking with Caphiric cultural pretensions, and its court conserved the symbolism, ritual, vocabulary, and pageantry of the Caphiric state system despite being isolated from the rest of the Istro-Caphiric cultural sphere of Sarpedon by Slavonic and Audonian conquest of the lands to its north and east. In the Sydona Islands under Iddrytine rule, the rural population was predominantly Pelian, while an Istro-Caphiricised, mainly coastal urban populace dominated commerce and politics.

During the Second Crusade, the Iddryitines would take advantage of the Audonian states' preöccupation with the Crusader threat on their northern flank to capture the island groups of Prevoy, Savoy, Tyadoæa, and the Tetyres from Audonian emirs by 1140 AD, as well as to enlarge their mainland holdings eastward in modern South Solis. It would continue this strategy during the Third Crusade, but with more mixed results, gaining the isles of Diakronum in the Founders' Sea and some additional mainland territory at the expense of the Audonians in South Solis, while also losing some of the same to the Slavic Ticheskan Kingdom by 1160 AD.

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 ===Iddryitine Despotate===
-The Iddryitine Despotate was a nominal dependency of the [[Caphiria#The_Second_Imperium|Caphirian Second Imperium]] that functioned for all intents and purposes as an independent state. Ruled from the island of Idyres, its fluctuating territory would extend through Sydona as far east as the Tetyres and Diakronum, northward into the hinterland of modern South Solis, and also westward to encompass the southeasternmost corner of what is now Greater Salesia, including its offshore islands Elvanum and Bores. The Despotate's elite were Istroyan-speaking with Caphiric cultural pretensions, and its court conserved the symbolism, ritual, vocabulary, and pageantry of the Caphiric state system despite being isolated from the rest of the Istro-Caphiric cultural sphere of Sarpedon by Slavonic and Audonian conquest of the lands to its north and east. In the Sydona Islands under Iddrytine rule, the rural population was predominantly Pelian, while an Istro-Caphiricised, mainly coastal urban populace dominated commerce and politics.
+The Iddryitine Despotate was a nominal dependency of the [[Caphiria#The_Second_Imperium|Caphirian Second Imperium]] that functioned for all intents and purposes as an independent state. Ruled from the island of Idyres, in 1080 AD its domain would extend to all of Sydona in the South, northward into the hinterland of modern South Solis, and also westward to encompass the southeasternmost corner of what is now Greater Salesia, including its offshore islands Elvanum and Bores. The Despotate's elite were Istroyan-speaking with Caphiric cultural pretensions, and its court conserved the symbolism, ritual, vocabulary, and pageantry of the Caphiric state system despite being isolated from the rest of the Istro-Caphiric cultural sphere of Sarpedon by Slavonic and Audonian conquest of the lands to its north and east. In the Sydona Islands under Iddrytine rule, the rural population was predominantly Pelian, while an Istro-Caphiricised, mainly coastal urban populace dominated commerce and politics.
+During the Second Crusade, the Iddryitines would take advantage of the Audonian states' preöccupation with the Crusader threat on their northern flank to capture the island groups of Prevoy, Savoy, Tyadoæa, and the Tetyres from Audonian emirs by 1140 AD, as well as to enlarge their mainland holdings eastward in modern South Solis. It would continue this strategy during the Third Crusade, but with more mixed results, gaining the isles of Diakronum in the Founders' Sea and some additional mainland territory at the expense of the Audonians in South Solis, while also losing some of the same to the Slavic Ticheskan Kingdom by 1160 AD.
 ===Crusades===

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